Across three pages, this poem traces how urbanisation, thermal and nuclear power, deforestation, soil erosion, CFC-driven ozone depletion and melting glaciers have brought the Earth to the edge of collapse. The poet blames human greed and complacency for the resulting water crisis and man-made disasters, and argues that if the state fails to act, citizens must find the courage to stand up themselves.
Written as a "letter of plead", it urges readers to protect corals, wetlands and forests and to fight climate change without fear. It ends by calling this the Earth's hour of need and warning that only a few more years remain before the planet as we know it fades away.
